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title: Let no one tempt you to try to cool yourself, or evil will befall yo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Let no one tempt you to try to cool yourself, or evil will befall you.’ Who acts: you, one, evil. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 134

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Let no one tempt you to try to cool yourself, or evil will befall you.’

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**Who acts:** you, one, evil · **What happens:** let, tempt, try, cool, befall · **To what, where:** one, you, yourself

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, evil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:20:134
# text = Let no one tempt you to try to cool yourself, or evil will befall you.’
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	tempt	tempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | no one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tempt** | infinitive | no one *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cool** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
| 5 | **befall** | future | evil | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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